Josh writes:
A cartoon inspired by Steve McIntyre’s post on Lew & Mann, and of course all the other posts from everyone else!
I realise the maths/latin title joke might be a wee bit subtle but hopefully it’ll ring some bells.
http://cartoonsbyjosh.com
I thought Mann reached that with his Tiljander sample.
Or has GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out become GIHO – Garbage In, Hockey-stick Out?
If my Android is ruined by the soft drink I just spewed all over it….it was worth it! Josh, you kill me.
Divide by zero and you get Lew’s Hockey Stick?
Cogito ergo dubito…
Cogito ergo smello bulcrapus . . .
I see the cloud but where is the cuckoo in cloud cuckoo land?
Josh – one of your best! 🙂
For the non Latin scholars, “sum” means “I am.”
Love the bells, Josh.
If you insist …? HAERES NEQUIQUAM CAENO CUPIENS EVELLERE PLANTUM – Horace
Johanna, Thanks.
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And here I thought it meant, “Sum’in ain’t right here.”
They are using advanced calculus. The answer is the limit of the value as the amount of data approaches zero.
Well done (as always), Josh!
“…where is the cuckoo… .” (APOBYH at 5:44pm today)
lol, sitting behind the CO2, of course. #(:))
OMG that is funny!!!!! I have seen this up close and personal. I know of folks in certain circles who pull their own calculations out of their ass and call what they have done “statistical analysis”, and then have the balls to defend it as if it is legit!
All Josh’s drawings of Mann make one smile.
Ah. The nothingness of infinity. The very basic tenet of projected climate science. It was in India that the single most important value in the decimal system: 0, was added to mathematical calculations. No wonder Pachauri is such a proponent of projections. Projecting climate warming into infinity is brilliant thinking when it comes to re-upping your grant.
Geez, some of my fellow skeptics here are almost impossible to please.
Consider, with a zero sample size, there is no need to request the methodology of the “adjustments”. Mann has once again avoided FOIA queries.
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Rogerknights @ur momisugly 7.06pm:
Yes, the look on Mann’s face reminds me of something a long time back, when CSIRO Divisional Chiefs made regular visits to far flung centres to see what their troops were up to. I asked the Chief how come he could go from office to office looking interested in what each scientist was explaining to him. He replied: ‘It helps if you’ve got piles’
Josh is generally good. Thank you.
Abysmal statistics: another instance of “what Lysenko spawned.”
Next Lew and Mann will be working in reciprocal space.
That should make for an interesting cartoon–as both get sucked in while observing their navels.
…..slurp
Then not only could we do without their statistics, we could do without Lew ‘n Mann.
A rearrangement of the words yields a poem:
Our sample size is zip, zilch, nada
We’ve reached the stage where we need no data.
They start with the conclusion and make up the data?
David (in Cal) your bouncy little poem’s rhythm brought to mind this delightful tune which I post here with Josh’s expose of those who have corrupted it,
to celebrate the scientific method!
Take it away, Ella!
“It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it…. that’s what gets {valid} results.”